Levels of fungi and mycotoxins in the samples of grain and grain dust collected from five various cereal crops in eastern Poland

During combine harvesting of 5 various cereal crops (rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn) 24 samples of grain and 24 samples of settled grain dust were collected on farms located in the Lublin province of eastern Poland. The samples were examined for the concentration of total microfungi, Fusarium sp...

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Published in:Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine 2007, Vol.14 (1), p.159-167
Main Authors: Krysińska-Traczyk, Ewa, Perkowski, Juliusz, Dutkiewicz, Jacek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural Workers' Diseases - epidemiology
Agricultural Workers' Diseases - etiology
Air Microbiology
Animals
Colony Count, Microbial
Consumer Product Safety
Dust - analysis
Edible Grain - chemistry
Edible Grain - microbiology
Food Contamination - analysis
Food Microbiology
Fungi - isolation & purification
Fungi - metabolism
Fusarium - isolation & purification
Fusarium - metabolism
Fusarium culmorum
Fusarium poae
Hordeum vulgare
Humans
Inhalation Exposure - adverse effects
Inhalation Exposure - analysis
Mycotoxins - analysis
Mycotoxins - biosynthesis
Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
Occupational Exposure - analysis
Poland
Trichothecenes - analysis
Trichothecenes - biosynthesis
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Summary:During combine harvesting of 5 various cereal crops (rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn) 24 samples of grain and 24 samples of settled grain dust were collected on farms located in the Lublin province of eastern Poland. The samples were examined for the concentration of total microfungi, Fusarium species, deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), and ochratoxin A (OTA). Microfungi able to grow on malt agar were present in 79.2% of grain samples and in 91.7% of grain dust samples in the concentrations of 1.0-801.3x10(3) cfu/g and 1.5-12440.0x10(3) cfu/g, respectively. The concentration of microfungi in grain dust samples was significantly greater than in grain samples (p
ISSN:1232-1966